Back to the USBCC PageEthel Conrad: Chairman Emeritus
Eileen Stein: President
Brooks Parrott: Vice President
Kay Pine: Secretary
Laura Carson: Treasurer
Bill Fosher: Director
Sally Molloy: Director
Davida Hall: Director
Rebecca Shouse: Director
Gail Dapogny: Director
Kay Stevens DVM: Director
Heather Nadelman: Director
Davida Hall: Newsletter Editor
Ethel Conrad got her first Border Collie in the 1960s, and began participating in AKC obedience and tracking trials in the early 1970s. At that time there were only two or three Border Collies competing on the east coast, and judges would ask her what kind of dog she had. She got a UDT, CDXTD (dog was injured before she could get a third utility leg) and two CDTD's. (There was no OTCH then.) She then got very interested in herding and for nearly 20 years she has been a frequent competitor and winner in sheep dog trials. She has qualified six dogs to run in the UBCHA finals, several more than once. She was one of the founders of the USBCC in 1975, and its first co-president. Since 1976 she has put on 36 sheep dog handlers training clinics, five judges' clinics, and 13 major sheep dog trials at her home, Sunnybrook Farm. She regularly performs herding demonstrations, including one on the David Letterman Show and one on the Mall in Washington for the Department of Agriculture. She currently has five working Border Collies, ranging in age from one-and-a-half to ten.
Eileen Stein is a lawyer living in Maryland. She has five Border Collies who help with her small flock of sheep and occasionally compete in sheepdog trials.
Brooks Parrott got her first Border Collie as a result of a lifelong passion for dogs and their training. She'd previously had a dachshund, six Alaskan Malamutes, a couple of Newfs who earned obedience and water rescue titles, and an English Springer Spaniel who retired as an OTCH with multiple Dog World Awards, HITs, and Gaines Regional and World Series placements. She has three BCs, and thanks to them also raises registered Jacob and Scottish Blackface sheep and Barbados Blackbellies on the farm where she and her husband live in northwestern New Jersey. Jet, her first BC, placed in a Gaines Regional, won the open division at both a Gaines Regional and the World Series, and earned an OTCH in four shows over one weekend. Skye, also a multiple HIT and Dog World Award Winner, has his CDX and was the NEBCA 1995 novice herding champion; he is now running in stock dog trials at the ranch level. Rush, 18 months old, will be making his debut in stock dog competition this spring. Brooks is also active in foster care and behavior counseling for Border Collie and English Springer rescue.
Kay Pine is secretary of the United States Border Collie Club.
Laura Carson is treasurer of the United States Border Collie Club.
Bill is a shepherd who runs a vegetation
management company using 800+ sheep. He competes in local sheepdog trials (local
for Bill is in the Northeast), which he credits for improving his dog handling
and shepherding skills. Good herding dogs are essential to his livelihood, and
he wants to see the breed not only preserved, but improved.
Sally lives in New Jersey and has been active in training dogs for most of her adult life. She competed with her Shetland Sheepdogs in obedience trials before turning her attention to stock work when she brought her 3-year-old Border Collie to sheep in 1998. She currently has five Border Collies and regularly competes in sheepdog trials at all levels, as well as helping others to learn to train their dogs. She keeps a small flock of Shetland, Romney and cross-bred sheep.
Davida formerly served as treasurer of the USBCC. She has three Border Collies
and has participated in both obedience and herding.
Rebecca lives on a small farm in North Carolina. She has had Border Collies for about ten years, and uses them to manage her flock of commercial ewes. She has trained and handled sheepdogs up to the open level, as well as training in obedience, flyball, and agility. She has been involved in Border Collie rescue for nine years, and in 1998 she co-founded Carolina Border Collie Rescue.
Gail Dapogny is a potter in Michigan. She is currently Secretary of the Michigan Border Collie Association, and has been active in USBCC since 1977, having served as Newsletter Editor for 13 years before becoming a Director. She got her first Border Collie, Moss, in 1975, and put a UD on him with several HITs. Her second Border Collie, OTCH Nell, was for a couple of years the second-ranked obedience BC in the country. She had a couple dozen all-breed AKC HITs, had several Gaines Regional and Classic tournament placings, and won the World Series Tournament, Open Division, two different years. Gail now teaches obedience, and is training her current four BCs in obedience and herding.
Kay is a veterinarian who competed in herding trials, obedience and agility with Shelties before turning to border collies. She lives on a 20-acre farm with 3 Shelties, 4 Border Collies, 10 cats and 40 sheep. She does some instruction in herding and writes a canine health column for the Working Border Collie magazine.
Heather works at the Educational Testing Service as a test developer. She has
three border collies and shares a small flock of sheep in central New Jersey,
and she spends much of her spare time as a web site hobby designer (she did
the original design for All About Border Collies and also maintains the popular
Littlehats.net , a site created to help
novices learn about USBCHA-style sheepdog trials.)
David Hall is editor of the USBCC newsletter.
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